But is not the Capri a Ford car for european market?
Obviously, different tracks need different cars.
An american car, Viper or Mustang will never win in strong twisties or small roads and mountain climbing, against a small wheelbase lightweight <100" (less than 1800cc) european or japanese car.
My brother loves his Peugeot 106 Rallye 1300. It's poor in low end torque, but faster and with a better handleing than many other cars bacause it's small and with a better power/weight balance. A wonderful toys on our Alpes climbings and twisties... And with a not expensive racing kit you can race on minor and AMA rallye categories.
What makes better our Triumph 790/865cc engine is that it can revs faster and higher than any Harley's big displacement heavy flywheel and other mechanical components.
DOHC 4 valves makes better performance with smaller displacement.
American bikes still follow the old rule of "nothing is better than cubic inches". Does it means that nothing is better than a proudly made in USA engine, or nothing is better than pure displacement numbers?
The entire worldwide automotive engineering has demonstrated they're both false assumptions.
Americans don't make finest automotive engineering, and cubic inches are not the cure for anything.
Just because growing in displacement the engine grows in torque, and growing in torque you loose reliability, so to don't loose in relyability you have to oversize every parts of your engine and your chassis. Oversizing enginee and chassis you put on weight, putting weight you spend lot of the torque and power achieved by the big displacement to move the extra weight.
That pushing sensation comeing from torque and big displacement is just a sensation, and nothing more...
That's why I/WE love this medium weight/displacement America/Speedmaster.
For me it's the intelligent cruiser I was searching for. Fast, handy, lightweight, good mileage, relatively poor maintenance. And nice looking.
